Welcome to a special episode of the Incluvie Movie Highlights. This summer we held the Incluvie Short Film Festival. The film festival discovers and brings to light some outstanding short films starring main characters from diverse backgrounds, who are often overlooked in Hollywood. The filmmakers and actors from the 3 winning films came in and talked about their process and what it was like to make the film. We’re proud to be talking to the creators of the winners to give us more insight into their filmmaking process.
Incluvie Movies and Reviews
Warmth – by Nathania Zaini is the only stop-motion submission this year, and it absolutely stands out. The lovable puppets convey such tenderness in her story, poetically narrated to follow someone’s repeated encounters with an old homeless man.
Review: Incluvie Film Fest 3rd Place Winner: ‘Warmth’ Review
Gender Outlaw: a bodysurfing story – A documentary profiling transgender athlete Tyler Wilde and his story with the Gillis beach Bodysurfing Association. It navigates the tumultuous waters that Tyler Wilde has had to move through as he searched for big surf, and his true self.
Review: Riding the Wave of Transness – ‘Gender Outlaw: A Bodysurfing Story’ Review
Is He? – Everyone needs a BFF and a “wing person” like Yumi. Li brings the “straight person” persona, literally and figuratively balancing James Aaron Oh’s perfectly timed comedic delivery as the unlucky-in-love.
Review: Incluvie Film Fest 1st Place Winner: ‘Is He?’ Review
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